[top-posting because it seems to be the most readable in this case - what's the convention on this list? top-post or bottom post?]
Thanks for the feedback and the links I'll check them out later. Unfortunately I find myself in the situation where some colleagues of mine want to/need to use Typolight and I need to provide a server for that. The problem is that Typolight not only requires libmcrypt which I could get from either EPEL or RPMforge but it also requires PHP 5.2 which Red Hat doesn't ship and which I can't find in either EPEL or RPMforge. I don't have the time or resources to start building PHP packages (and especially tracking bug and security fixes myself) in addition to the fact that I don't fancy the idea of replacing essential packages with non-supported ones. Guess my best option os to raise this with RH support and see if they can provide a way for us to run Typolight on RHEL5.3. Again thanks for the effort maintaining this repo and the feedback to my questions. Regards Bram On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:31 AM, Michael Mansour<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > >> I've decided much earlier.. Since EPEL does not play nice with >> others, to me EPEL simply does not exists. It's harsh, yes.. It's >> my choice. > > I agree with you as that choice can be made easily for some, yet some others > it's not as easy. > > I read the links below and although it seemed obvious to me (and anyone else > who'd read the thread) what should be done and what Dag / Axel were trying to > do, it seems to me the EPEL people _chose_ not to see it that way. > > After all, if you work off a philosophy of "one repo should provide all > packages not part of core" then you'll see it the EPEL way too. > > In the real world though, working with people typically wins over isolating > yourself and not working with people. > > In the end, EPEL lose, 3rd party repo's lose, and eventually we do to. > > Regards, > > Michael. > >> Regards >> >> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Bram Mertens wrote: >> > >> >> Hi >> >> >> >> First of all thank you for providing this repository. >> >> >> >> Today I was looking for packages for libmcrypt and found one both in >> >> RPMforge and in EPEL. >> >> >> >> I haven't compared the source packages of EPEL and the one from >> >> RPMforge but I suspect there will be only minor differences. >> >> >> >> So to me seems like a duplication of effort and resources that might >> >> be invested better in other matters as I'm sure you will all have >> >> limited time and resources. >> >> >> >> Are there any plans to cooperate with the maintainers of the EPEL >> >> repository? I read about the conflict with fedora.us and livna.org >> >> but nohing about EPEL. And my quick search in the archives of the >> >> last couple of months did not reveal anything like this either. >> >> >> > >> > fwiw: >> > http://www.google.com/search?q=epel+rpmforge+site%3Awww.redhat.com >> > http://www.google.com/search?q=epel+rpmforge+site%3Alists.rpmforge.net >> > >> > Regards, >> > Nicolas >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > users mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.rpmforge.net/mailman/listinfo/users >> > > ------- End of Original Message ------- > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rpmforge.net/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rpmforge.net/mailman/listinfo/users
